Description: The purpose of the Review of Agricultural Economics (RAE) is to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and empirical findings among those working in various areas of agricultural economics. These areas include extension education, resident instruction, applied economic and policy analysis, and decision-support analysis. Published articles are expected to be valuable to applied economists working in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors, both domestic and international. In this regard, this publication is unique among the scholarly agricultural economics journals. The editors take seriously the challenge to evaluate manuscripts for publication based on readability and broad interest to all subscribers.

The Review of Agricultural Economics is published jointly by the Southern Agricultural Economics Association, the Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association, the Western Agricultural Economics Association, and the American Agricultural Economics Association. The RAE is published quarterly.

Coverage: 1991-2009 (Vol. 13, No. 1 - Vol. 31, No. 4)

Note: Note: Review of Agricultural Economics is a previous title to Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy. The volumes under the current title, Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, will be publicly released into the JSTOR archive in 2016.

The "moving wall" represents the time period between the last issue
available in JSTOR and the most recently published issue of a journal.
Moving walls are generally represented in years. In rare instances, a
publisher has elected to have a "zero" moving wall, so their current
issues are available in JSTOR shortly after publication.
Note: In calculating the moving wall, the current year is not counted.
For example, if the current year is 2008 and a journal has a 5 year
moving wall, articles from the year 2002 are available.

Terms Related to the Moving Wall

Fixed walls: Journals with no new volumes being added to the archive.

Absorbed: Journals that are combined with another title.

Complete: Journals that are no longer published or that have been
combined with another title.

Abstract

There is a growing body of literature about the impacts of Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) cotton in developing countries. While many studies show remarkable benefits for farmers, there are also reports that question these results. Most previous studies consider impacts in deterministic terms, neglecting existing variability. Here we explain the main factors influencing the agronomic and economic outcomes. Apart from differences in pest pressure and patterns of pesticide use, germplasm effects can play an important role. Theoretical arguments are supported by empirical evidence from India. Better understanding of impact variability can help explain some of the paradoxes in the recent controversy over genetically modified crops.